A Text-book of the practice of medicine

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W.B. Saunders, 1899 - 1292 páginas
 

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Página 188 - The examination by a competent bacteriologist of the bacterial growth in a blood serum tube which has been properly inoculated and kept for fourteen hours at the body temperature, can be thoroughly relied on in cases where there is visible membrane in the throat, if the culture is made during the period in which the membrane is forming, and no antiseptic, especially no mercurial solution, has lately been applied.
Página 412 - Predominance of lower limb affection, in which there is immobility going on to pseudo-paralysis, excessive tenderness, general swelling of the lower limbs, skin shiny and tense, but seldom pitting and not characterized by undue local heat. on subsidence revealing a deep thickening of the shafts, also liability to fracture near the epiphysis. (2) Swelling of the gums, varying from definite sponginess down to a vanishing point of minute, transient ecchymosis. These constitute the chief diagnostic differentia...
Página 194 - ... and three malignant cases in which the progress was so rapid that the cases had passed beyond any reasonable prospect of recovery before the serum was used. In two of these the serum was of uncertain strength and of doubtful value. 6. The number of cases in which the patients appeared to have been made worse by serum were three, and among these there is only one new case in which the result may fairly be attributed to the injection. 7. The general mortality in the 5,794 cases reported was 12.3...
Página 194 - The proportion of cases of broncho-pneumonia — 5.9 per cent — is very small and in striking contrast to results published from hospital s.ources. 12. As against the two or three instances in which the serum is believed to have acted unfavorably upon the heart might be cited a large number in which there was a distinct improvement in the heart's action after the serum was injected. 13. There is very little, if any, evidence to show that nephritis was caused in any case by the injection of serum....
Página 194 - The most convincing argument, and to the minds of the Committee an absolutely unanswerable one, in favor of serum therapy is found in the results obtained in the...
Página 194 - Of the 533 cases in which intubation was performed the mortality was 25.9 per cent., or lees than half as great as has ever been reported by any other method of treatment. 11. The proportion of cases of broncho-pneumonia — 5.9 per cent. — is very small and in striking contrast to results published from hospital sources. 12. As against the two or three instances in which the...
Página 80 - Larger disk-like and ameboid forms. 7.— Ring-like body with a few pigment-granules in a brassy, shrunken corpuscle. 8, 9, 10, 12.— Similar pigmented bodies.
Página 411 - In fine, that in general the cases reported seem to indicate that the farther a food is removed in character from the natural food of a child the more likely its use is to be followed by the development of scurvy.
Página 3 - AUTHOR'S PREFACE. THIS Text-book of Botany is intended to introduce the student to the present state of our knowledge of botanical science. Its purpose is not only to describe the phenomena of plant-life which are already accurately known, but also to indicate those theories and problems in which botanical research is at present especially engaged; the arrangement of the material and the mode of treatment of the separate...
Página 256 - ... the upper bone of the sternum. As the chin is now slowly depressed, the hum becomes less loudly audible, and ceases shortly before the head reaches its ordinary position. The explanation of this phenomenon...

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